The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTTrue individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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What America needs now is a drink.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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